Author Archive: Retro

Dr. Fletcher, while on a professional visit, finds a young girl homeless and penniless. Her father, a poor laborer, had just died. He offers her home and protection which she thankfully accepts. A year has passed. The new ward has found her way to the heart of the doctor. He finds that she is more to him than a child. He proposes marriage and is accepted. The doctor’s busy life keeps him much away from his young wife which time she uses for a little innocent flirtation. Some evening one of her admirers hands her a note and asks her to see him after her husband has retired. She reads the note and laughingly hides it in her bosom, never intending of taking the flirtation serious. The company has gone. The doctor decides to work before retiring while his young wife stays in his office until he had finished his work. She lays down upon [...]

Seven toy teddy bears of varying sizes suddenly come to life, getting in all sorts of merry misadventures.

In a medium close-up shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at hair’s breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.

“Panoramic view taken from a tug, showing the Statue of Liberty and its environments in New York Harbor.”

A dancer on Broadway and her boyfriend take a trip back home only to find that their fathers are in the middle of an angry feud.

Two love triangles intersect in ancient Pompei.

Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.